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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Over the past decades, rapid developments in digital and sensing technologies, such as the Cloud, Web and Internet of Things, have dramatically changed the way we live and work. The digital transformation is revolutionizing our ability to monitor our planet and transforming the way we access, process and exploit Earth Observation data from satellites.This book reviews these megatrends and their implications for th...

Mountains that drop into the sea. Rain that settles over the land.Nature shapes the rhythm of everyday life in Vancouver, British Columbia—one of those rare places where the city and the wild are inseparable. In this corner of Canada's Pacific Northwest, forests meet neighbourhoods, water weaves through the city, and seasons invite change. In turn, its inhabitants reach for the outdoors—to be part of it all.Over fourteen years, through rain and shine, Mexic...

Now a Netflix Original Film directed by Amy Poehler."Sweet, funny, and fierce. Read this and then join the fight."—Amy PoehlerAn unlikely teenager starts a feminist revolution at a small-town Texas high school in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, author of Down Came the Rain and The Truth About Alice.Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with an administration at her high school that thinks the football ...

****An instant National Bestseller!**A July 2024 LibraryReads Pick!By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educators, a timely glimpse at today’s pressing school issues, and a tender character study, following a sprawling cast of teachers, administrators, and staff at a Texas high school**With its ensemble of warm and unforgettablecharacters, The Faculty Lounge shows readers a different side of sc...

LIBRARY WRITERS PROJECT SELECTION 2026CRAZY POOR CUBANS opens in Los Angeles in 1967 the night 16-year-old Carida learns her father has run off with the strumpet from the bank leaving behind a locked desk and not much else. How they got there is a story that begins decades earlier in a Havana that no longer exists.It’s the story of a family where love abounds but sanity is in short supply. Of a mother inexplicably hanging on to an impossibl...

From Jennifer Mathieu, the author of The Truth About Alice comes a novel about the courage to believe and what it means to be truly devoted.Rachel Walker is devoted to God. She prays every day, attends Calvary Christian Church with her family, helps care for her five younger siblings, dresses modestly, and prepares herself to be a wife and mother who serves the Lord with joy. But Rachel is curious about the world her family has turned away from, and increas...

FINALIST-Best Thriller of the Year 2024Where silence hides the guilty and the past bleeds into the present, one man lights a match that could set the world ablaze.In the ruins of memory, Mathieu James carries the weight of a city lost to fire and fear. The 2005 London bombings stole his parents, and with them, his peace. Yet beneath his polished life as a journalist lies another truth: he carries a non-official cover for the CIA, forged in silence,...

Library books. They look so innocent and helpful. But did you know there's a border keeping the world of stories apart from the real-life world? And that the border must be guarded at all times? Me neither! I know it now, that's for sure. My friends Damiano and Inés crossed that border. They escaped from a book into my quiet, perfect little town of Alta Donna. And boy, did they bring trouble with them.Now it's up to me to save the town, save my friends, and fix the damage to both wo...

Dementia is increasingly being recognised as a public health priority and poses one of the largest challenges we face as a society. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that the quest for a cure for Alzheimer's disease and other causes of dementia needs to be complemented by efforts to improve the lives of people with dementia. To gain a better understanding of dementia and of how to organize dementia care, there is a need to bring together insights from many different discipline...

Laugh and learn with fun facts about hot lava, ash clouds, volcanos, and more—all told in Dr. Seuss’s beloved rhyming style and starring the Cat in the Hat!“I’m the Cat in the Hat, and I’m here to explain-o some marvelous facts all about the volcano!”The Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library series combines beloved characters, engaging rhymes, and Seussian illustrations to introduce children to non-fiction topics from the real world! Erupt with laughte...

**This searing historical fiction immerses us in the brutal early days of the 19th-century French colonization of Algeria.The highly anticipated English-language debut of a prize-winning author who tackles the taboo of France’s colonial past.**In search of a prosperous life, Séraphine and her family brave the dangerous journey to France’s newly conquered Algerian territory, along with five hundred likeminded citizens. But the realities of the colony soon give the lie to the...

The internationally acclaimed coming-of-age story set in a forgotten, hopeless region of France—for fans of Sally Rooney and Nathan HillThis poignant portrait of working-class teens captures the defining moments of 4 summers in the 1990s—from Nirvana to the World Cup.August, 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a desolate valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake, 14-year-old Anthony and his cousin...